[ILUG] Do not ever do.... (dragging this back to original question!)

[Ronan Cunniffe]

Quoting Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>:

> Quoting Michael Armbrecht (marmbrecht at eircom.net):
> 
> > ...you have to be root to run cdrecord...
> 
> ...until the day you discover the chgrp or sudo commands.
> 
> > I think that in the CD writing area, on the Linux side lots of bugs
> > have to be stomped on.
> 
> On available evidence, the cause of your hard hang lay in the ATAPI SCSI
> emulation layer.  Which, of course, can be eliminated by using hardware
> that doesn't need it.  Just a thought.

So does *anyone* know a piece of software (or is anyone familiar with the IOCTLs!)
needed to reset a SCSI device?  I draw the line, um, "short" of sticking a
needle in the ribbon cable.

All the permissions and sudo stuff doesn't help a bit if the drive is, um, stuffed.

Ronan.